Nice People 13: Nice Save

PasturesNew

Wheezy wrote: »

Sex with more than 20 women reduces risk of prostate cancer.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/11192385/Sex-with-21-women-lowers-risk-of-prostate-cancer-academics-find.html

I need to discuss this with Mrs. Wheezy :A

I think the rules once you've been dumped and thrown out in the street mean that you can have it with as many as you like.

michaels

Our sale is hopefully progressing, survey valuation will be the biggie.

First buyer went in small steps from silly offer to 2% below asking price over 2+ months then pulled out 2 weeks later. Current buyer went ok then acceptable within a few days, us playing hard to get seemed to help.

michaels

Wheezy wrote: »

Sex with more than 20 women reduces risk of prostate cancer.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/11192385/Sex-with-21-women-lowers-risk-of-prostate-cancer-academics-find.html

I need to discuss this with Mrs. Wheezy :A

Does she have a prostate?

Generali

michaels wrote: »

Does she have a prostrate?

Does anyone have a prostrate?

LydiaJ

Generali wrote: »

TBH, I don't get the emotion but I suspect that's because I work in asset markets.

Someone bids below the bid price and they don't get the asset. No need to get worked up.

As purch would say, the price is the price.

Most people aren't able to deal with the sale of their home with the same emotional detachment as if it were just another asset.

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

I'm happy the electrics are safe, but it's about 40 years since we had the house rewired (it really was a mess back then with 3 different kinds of plugs, very few modern, mostly round pin big or round pin small)

My dad's house is still like that. :eek:

Nikkster wrote: »

Much too slowly. Considering the time left.

I will be relying on others to provide timely input. Which depends on how much time and effort they are able and willing to give. I will also be relying on a nod to allow me to hand it over at the end of the year. Which I'm not sure I'll get, or to be honest that I deserve.

What can we do to encourage you?

Marking finished. Off to have lunch with a friend. Will try to do some work on the house later today but may find writing test questions a more attractive prospect. Am getting really frustrated with my inability to make myself sort this house out.

lostinrates

Lydia, which room would help most if you could clear one by magic?

Iirc your kitchen is more than fine and sitting room fine? Is that still the case?

For me though its small when my utility is clear and functioning every thing is easier. The study is a grimace and bear it ATM and the dining room is the next on my tackle it till perfect job. ( there is stuff on top of cupboards and under them, A rates family special mr rates is going to learn THIS mrs rates is not going to live with as we progress. ) if it needs to go on top of a cupboard chances are we don't need it.


I have some stuff to go to a charity shop boxed up this week. A bowl that was an unwanted gift, a plate I dislike, some dipping bowls that fir got through work, doesn't like but won't throw away...that sort of stuff. I also want to get rid of a couple of not special paintings.

Nikkster

The turquoise looks beachy to me - do you think it will match your curtains?

I am biased, because I love turquoise though

I think it would look even less bold in room, with stuff on it too.

Nikkster

I think that unless someone has a time machine they're not telling me about, there is very little anyone else can do.

Unless anyone wants to come and sit here and babysit me?

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'd be prepared to change the curtains, but I think I'll go down the "keep it plain/paint it later with a nice colour" route .... it'd annoy me if it ended up the only solid block of one colour in the room when I've got the opportunity to paint that and something else at some future point.

Sounds like a sensible plan

The birch is nice and light as it is anyway

vivatifosi

Wheezy wrote: »

I was a bit too young to remember the first moon landing, but I vaguely remember the later missions, but still, too young to realize what it was all about.
There was a good program on the Russian space program on BBC4 2 weeks ago..."Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race". Highly interesting, amazing archive footage and not dumbed down for a change.

That was an amazing programme. Well worth catching on iPlayer if still available. Because we were the other side of the wall during the Cold War, its amazing seeing the Soviet footage from then. It's almost like being let in to a long held secret.

Generali wrote: »

I think I remember the final moon shot being replayed on TV when I was a really little kid but I can't really remember. It was just a black and white rocket on a black and white TV.

My mate and I were taken out of class for the first few shuttle launches: we got to sit in a teacher's cupboard to watch it. I watched every shuttle launch I think until Colombia exploded either live or recorded when I got home. I don't think I watched another one afterwards.

Apparently you have a 1% chance of dying on a space mission.

There is still a high failure rate for space missions. The Russian rockets, which have changed little since the Korolev era, are seen as the most reliable now.

The Space shuttle was a highly unreliable vehicle when it retired. There were 5 craft that went into space and of these two resulted in fatal missions. If that was the case with commercial aviation, nobody would fly. The great irony is that the Space Shuttle would fly with a crew varying in size between 2 and 8 personnel. The first mission, STS-1, flew with just a pilot and commander (Crippen and Young), though the typical crew size was five to seven. Both the Challenger and Columbia disasters featured teams of seven, the largest practical and normal size. While any loss of life in space is tragic, the loss of seven on each is particularly sad. Only 355 Astronauts and Cosmonauts flew the shuttle (some on multiple missions). Of those, 14 never returned home.

If anyone hasn't been and has a chance, a visit to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida is a really worthwhile trip. The Shuttle is really small when you see how big the Apollo Rockets were. There's a specialist tour that they run (not all of the time) that takes you to the older sites. Seeing the control room and launchpad where Alan Shepard's Redstone (Mercury) took off is amazing. Talk about the right stuff. The visit to the pad where Grissom, Chaffee and White lost their lives (Apollo 1) was also extremely sobering. Grissom was set to be the first man to walk on the moon, Neil Armstrong was actually his stand in.

I'd quite like to see Star City in Kazakhstan if they do tours, maybe when Hamish and I do the Mongol Rally we can take a detour that way.

I'm a bit of a space geek, even though I don't have the slightest understanding of the laws of physics. But I find the human side fascinating.